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I just assumed they were part of the magic/occult symbolism similar to the pentagrams and upside crosses seen throughout Doom 1 + 2. Although removed from the context of the game it reminds me of Sonic more than anything (a gold ring on a blue background.) Heh.

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Interesting. Similar banners are encountered in some PWADs, and can have the signs of the Serpent Riders. Which means that Doom and Heretic are connected. And the Serpent Riders already have ways to connect distant worlds like Parthoris and Kronos. But we don't know if they're separate like our universe and hell. Maybe they can't just spawn into Doom.

Stiil, the very thing I imagine when I see such a banner is "hell nazis". Together with the Doom 2 palace wood panel textures, it looks like Wolfenstein.

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The four outer diamonds stand for the 4 elements, the middle diamond stands for how awesome Doom is, and the circle underneath is a physical representation of the mathematical equation that describes how much bigger your dick gets when you pick up a berserk pack.

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I think they were trying to create a Dark Ages medieval feeling. It looks like a coat of arms perhaps. Remember they wanted the city to be transformed by hell, what better way to do that than turn development back 1500 years and have the demons start building stuff out of wood, marble, and gravel.

It's possible they were getting kind of psyched up to do Quake, and they started blending their styles already: tech, medieval, and demonology.

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The ring reminds me of a similar design seen sometimes in churches; It symbolizes unity; A husband and wife bear a ring as a symbol of their union.

In the church, often the symbol of grain is paired with the ring. Grain, or bread, the sustenance that keep the body strong. The body is an important theme to Christians, too; The body of Christ.

Here isn't grain, though, as you have mentioned. It is actually five diamonds.

They might actually be diadems, not diamonds. In popular Christian belief, Mary had a dream shortly before Jesus was born. In the drea, a giant dragon flew up into the sky, and seven diadems appeared above its head.